“There’s nothing more refreshing than a chilled glass of rosé wine on a hot summer day in Texas. Make award-winning Wedding Oak Winery Rosés the stars of your Texas summer,” says Mike McHenry, owner of […]
Still to this day, the RUMOR PERSISTS that Texas wineries are not making “REAL TEXAS” wines, choosing instead to simply relabel wines or use grapes from west coast winegrowing regions. There is a SECOND RUMOR […]
About a decade ago, Duchman Family Winery and its winemaker Dave Reilly made quite a statement with a wine that was made from a nearly unknown grape to most Texans – Vermentino. It was grown […]
On this tasting stop at Wedding Oak Winery, we’ve got some good (and even Gold Medal) tasting to do today! Mike and Lynn McHenry, the passionate owners of the Wedding Oak Winery purchased 112 acres […]
Bent Oak Winery is located just west of Austin, in Cedar Park, Texas. For those that have not already been there, it is located at 2000 Windy Terrace Suite 2B. From Austin proper, go north […]
Today, you are visiting a family-owned, boutique winery in Stonewall, Texas, called Ab Astris Winery. The winery owners are dedicated to producing handcrafted wines just off to the north of Route 290 between Stonewall and […]
Many wine aficionados haven’t had the opportunity to taste wine made from the Graciano grape and some have never even heard about it. Furthermore, some have had Graciano, and didn’t know it. Sound weird? Why […]
To those of you that missed my blog on a new grape grown in Texas, Teroldego, check it out for some background information (click here). I wrote that blog before actually coming in contact with […]
In Texas, Mourvèdre is a rapidly rising star with plantings in both the centrally located Texas Hill Country AVA and in the more northern Texas High Plains. […]
Let’s start with this easy questions and give an obvious easy answer. Rioja is definitely not a variety of wine grape. But, it is a word that is very much associated with Spanish wine. From […]